Pegging beads...more controversial than pineapple on pizza???

[Gregg]

Well Ralph, I’m taking mortality. Ethics are subjective, mortality is documentable. I’m interested why there’s a standard for one thing when the evidence doesn’t seem to support it. If you want to be ethical we’ll just stand away from the water and watch trout rise, unmolested in the serenity of nature. Take only photographs, leave only footprints. Etc etc etc. You’re using the term “snagging” pretty liberally and I think you’re smart enough to know that. If you do feel so passionate about it I’m expecting to see you in the fly shops and in the guide boats demanding their removal. I have a feeling that won’t happen tho, as a random person on an Internet forum is a bit safer to critique.
Again, I’m all ears to shop employees, guides, wildlife biologists, etc. I’m not singing the praises of beading for trout, I’m curious why some people are against it. From an evidence based position. Not their personal “touchy feelies” about nobility.